Here is how Lam Research (LRCX) and Aehr Test Systems (AEHR) have performed compared to their sector so far this year.

On August 13, 2026, Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) reported fiscal third-quarter results that topped Wall Street estimates on both revenue and adjusted profit, yet shares fell nearly 5% in after-hours trading and kept sliding into August 14, 2026. Rival Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX) posted its own stronger-than-expected results on July 29, 2026, and saw shares […]

Coatue Management started a new AMD stock position worth $55.8 million in Q2, joining a wave of fresh AI bets from the hedge fund giant.

FTXL has handed holders a stunning run, but the modified-equal-weight label that made the fund feel safe may be hiding a concentration problem that turns one bad earnings call into a portfolio event.

Paul Tudor Jones has a growing put position and a now-liquidated common stock position in Applied Materials. Is he bearish on AI?

Stanley Druckenmiller just closed out three of the most talked-about semiconductor positions on Wall Street and immediately put the proceeds to work in a pair of AI infrastructure names most income investors overlook entirely.

AMAT's AI-driven semiconductor equipment launches strengthen its advanced packaging position amid rising HBM demand and a memory production ramp-up.

ADI's Q3 revenues surge 40% and earnings top estimates, while strong margins and upbeat Q4 guidance signal continued momentum.

September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU26) are down -0.37%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU26) are down -0.48% this morning, pointing to a lower open on Wall Street as Treasury yields resumed their climb.

Chip equipment stocks are selling off hard even as Treasury yields drop and the broader market climbs, and the disconnect points to something more troubling than a rates problem lurking beneath the AI infrastructure trade.

Jack Henry's Q4 revenues rise 4.7% on processing, cloud hosting and faster payment growth, while higher personnel costs pressure margins.

Top research reports spotlight Visa as payments grow, Lam Research on AI demand and Caterpillar on strong backlog.

Hedge funds trimmed or exited positions in Broadcom (NasdaqGS: AVGO) in Q2 2026, rotating capital into other large semiconductor and tech stocks. Duquesne Family Office and Altimeter Capital shifted exposure toward companies such as Amazon, TSMC, and Lam Research. Managers cited concerns around Broadcom's valuation, customer concentration, and margin pressures despite strong AI semiconductor revenue growth. The repositioning highlights a rise in institutional caution on Broadcom compared...

Visa's payments growth, Lam Research's AI-driven demand and Caterpillar's broad market momentum headline today's top analyst reports.

Chip equipment stocks have surged far ahead of the broader tech market in 2026, but a single week of doubts about AI spending just wiped billions in gains across the group. Here is what the gap between Applied Materials, Lam Research, and KLA signals about where the trade goes next.

Applied Materials' AI-driven growth, strong semiconductor demand and broad portfolio support its bullish outlook despite a premium valuation.

Is it a good or bad thing when a stock surpasses resistance at the 50-day simple moving average?

LRCX's DRAM push gains momentum as AI-driven HBM demand, advanced memory nodes and growing tool adoption expand its growth opportunities.

Expensive stocks typically earn their valuations through superior growth rates that other companies simply can’t match. The flip side though is that these lofty expectations make them particularly susceptible to drawdowns when market sentiment shifts.

Get paid a real income now on your KLA shares, income you keep no matter what, in exchange for agreeing to sell at a higher price if the stock gets there.

ASML's AI-fueled EUV growth and strong outlook remain compelling, but a premium valuation, debt and rising competition argue for patience.

Lam Research stock has delivered a very strong 499.2% return over the past five years, while its valuation checks currently lean expensive rather than pointing to an obvious bargain. For investors, that mix of strong performance and a low value score raises questions about how much of the AI and semiconductor demand story is already reflected in the current price. Over the past five years Lam Research has returned 499.2%, which sets a high bar for future returns to justify the current share...

Latest 13F filings show that billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller’s family office fund and Brad Gerstner’s Altimeter Capital both sold Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) during the second quarter and opened new stakes in Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ: LRCX) instead. Bulls say Lam’s multiple compression is due to the overall semiconductor selloff, not a fundamental issue. In fiscal […]

Wall Street's most dominant process control chipmaker just dropped nearly 10% in a month despite a five-quarter beat streak, and one high-conviction analyst sees a gap forming that the rest of the Street has not yet priced in.

Top hedge funds quietly rotated out of one chip giant and piled into another last quarter, and the price action since then suggests they knew something. Here is what Druckenmiller, Loeb, and Tepper actually did with their semiconductor books.

The investment firm shifted away from some of the market’s biggest semiconductor winners in the second quarter.

Micron Technology (MU) broke ground on a new memory fab in July 2026 that will cost $9.3 billion and still not produce a single chip until 2028. That gap, years between shovel and shipment, is the real story behind every headline about the AI memory shortage. No amount of capital spending shortens ...

Lam Research just clawed back 34% from a brutal selloff, and a $3 billion R&D commitment to next-gen etching technology suggests the rebound may only be the beginning. But whether the company can own the atomic layer etching era before a supercycle hits is the question every semiconductor investor should be asking right now.

Amkor Technology's 18% slide highlights near-term pressure, but advanced packaging, AI demand and rising earnings estimates strengthen the buy case.

Polen Capital Management Llc released its “Polen Focus Growth Strategy” Q2 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Polen Focus Growth returned 6.33% (net of fees) in the second quarter of 2026, significantly underperforming the Russell 1000 Growth Index’s 16.74% gain, as the market rally remained narrowly focused on AI […]

While several analysts praised the results and long-term outlook, others said expectations had been higher, citing gross-margin commentary, near-term guidance, and the pace of systems growth.

Shares of Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT) are down 5.7% in premarket trading Friday after the company posted record fiscal Q3 results but guided fourth quarter revenue and margins that failed to clear an elevated bar. The stock closed Thursday near $535, already up roughly 109% year to date and roughly 183% over one year. Strong Report, ... Applied Materials is Down 6% Premarket. Will It Drag Down Lam Research, KLA, and Other Semi Equipment Stocks?

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Applied Materials shares fell about 5% in premarket trading on Friday, as the ‌chip equipment maker's upbeat outlook failed to ‌soothe investors worried about the threat from intensifying competition. The muted reaction ​illustrates the high bar chip stocks have to clear and suggests that investors have little tolerance for any hint that a company may be falling behind peers. After a ‌sharp rally that ⁠has more than doubled Applied's shares this year, investors want clearer signals that the ⁠company's growth is outpacing rivals in the wafer-fab-equipment market.

In August 2026, Lam Research announced plans to invest more than US$3.00 billion over five years to expand its global R&D lab network, aiming to lift experiment capacity by over 50% and compress product development cycles for semiconductor customers across the US, Asia, and Europe. An interesting angle is how this integrated 24/7 lab system, which already supports over one million experiments annually, is being scaled to accelerate AI-era chip innovation through faster, closer collaboration...

Lam Research said on Thursday it intends to invest more than $3 billion in ‌the next five years to expand its ‌global research and development lab network, as it seeks to increase ​experiment capacity and speed up product development. The U.S. chip equipment maker said the multi-site expansion is expected to increase its experiment capacity by over 50%. • Lam Research is making the investment with the intention of staying ahead of customers' ​needs as ​the pace of innovation ​requires chips with new ‌architectures, different materials and complex features engineered with nanoscale precision, CEO Tim Archer said.

Applied Materials forecast fourth-quarter revenue above Wall Street expectations on Thursday, betting that unabated demand for advanced AI ‌chips will continue to fuel robust spending on its semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Even ‌so, its shares dropped more than 5% in extended trading as lofty investor expectations overshadowed the results. Expectations are elevated as the chip equipment maker reports after peers Lam Research and KLA posted solid quarterly performances and forecast revenue growth, Stifel's Brian Chin said.

KLAC's 9.3% monthly drop highlights near-term margin and supply risks, even as AI demand, HBM and advanced packaging support its long-term growth outlook.

SanDisk just dropped a multi-year financial model at its Investor Day, and the ripple hit equipment stocks hard and fast. Here is what the targets signal about memory capital spending through 2030 and which semiconductor names stand to gain the most.

The stock is priced on a multi-year fab build-out whose pace is set by supply chains rather than by demand.

Jim Cramer is hosting a semiconductor-focused CNBC Investing Club call Thursday at noon. The AI capex cycle is running hotter than any point in the last two years, with hyperscalers, sovereigns, and enterprises racing to secure compute. These five names matter most, ranked by AI-driven revenue growth, earnings execution, margin expansion, and forward guidance strength. ... 5 Semiconductor Stocks Jim Cramer Could Be Talking About on Thursday

Intel stock was down after it said it plans to issue 210.5 million shares at a price of $95 a share but ASML was gaining.

SpaceX just unveiled plans for a factory 15 times the size of the Pentagon, and its stated goal is to shatter the memory chip oligopoly. That ambition forces a hard choice for retirement investors holding semiconductor stocks right now.

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LRCX expands into PLP as larger AI chips drive demand, targeting a fast-growing advanced-packaging opportunity.

Investing.com -- In a note on Tuesday, Bernstein lifted its forecasts for wafer fabrication equipment (WFE) spending, raising price targets across its semiconductor equipment coverage on growing conviction that the current upcycle "has legs."

AI-driven semiconductor demand is boosting LRCX and AMKR, with strong results, growth prospects and upside potential supporting both stocks.

Cramer’s Case for the Semiconductor Equipment “Troika” During the August 6 episode of CNBC’s Mad Money, host Jim Cramer pointed to the bottleneck in data center memory production and urged investors to focus on the companies building the fabrication machinery. He highlighted Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX), KLA Corporation (NASDAQ:KLAC), and Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT) as […]

Lam Research (NasdaqGS:LRCX) is in focus as Taiwan Semiconductor reports strong AI driven revenue growth that supports demand across the chip supply chain. Taiwan Semiconductor has raised its outlook for 2026, tying expectations more closely to artificial intelligence related workloads and advanced chip manufacturing. The foundry relies on semiconductor equipment suppliers such as Lam Research for tools used in producing high performance AI chips. The stronger AI spending trend at Taiwan...

Lam Research (LRCX) might move higher on growing optimism about its earnings prospects, which is reflected by its upgrade to a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).